The St. Johns herald., 1887-11-17
NUMBER 4o
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

Silver Belt, voices the sentiment of : every resident of Arizona and New Mexico who has the welfare of the
 sister Territories at heart "There
 IS no reason why the Indians on the San Carlos Reservation should
 longer be permitted to carry arms.
 They receive everything needful to
 their maintenance from the Gov ernment, and the people of Arizona and New Mexico demand that this outrage be put a stop to-"
 The Arizonan has this to say of the future of the Salt River coun- try: With the utilization of our sorghum crops for sugar; the estab- lishmentof wineries for our grapes, and the curing of raisins: came ries for fruits, hog packing houses and creameries, an idea may be gained of the future importance of the Salt River Valley, when every acre of land is utilized, every inch of water carefully used. It willnot be many years until all this is ac- complished."
 The Flagstaff Champion says that cowboys from the range of the Aztec Cattle Company, fifty miles south of Flagstaff, report trouble with moving bands of Apache Indians, who are stealing stock and driving their plunder into the reservation. When pursued they organize in large parties and make a defiant stand against rangemen. The mili- tary promise, if they are captured, to deliver them to the civil author ities.
 The Prescott Courier gives the following account of the recent killing of Al Rose, one of the Gra- ham faction in the Tonto Basin troubles. The Courier says: MT. Sixby, of Pleasant Valley. who is now in Prescott, got the following account of Roses death, from Louis Neglin, who was present when Rose was killed:
 The killing occurred at Hudson's place about daylight, on the morn ing of November first. Deceased, Neglin and another man (name not given ) were out gathering stock and had stopped there all night, About daylight, Rose got out of bed, start ed to feed his horses and was fired on by nine masked men. His com paniOns on hearing the firing, went to the door of the log house and, on seeing guns leveled on them, re. treated behind the logs and pre- pared to defend their lives, but the party that had killed Rose did not attack them. Rose, Neglin says, was shot eleven times the last shot struck him in the foot as he was falling, passed through it and mark ed his leg, up to the knee.
 The Courier does not vouch for the correctness of this account, nor does Mr. Sixby. It is only one ac- count of the sad affair.
 Politically, we have Lever been an adnirer of Mir. Gates, and prob- ably meyer will be unless We should chance to find him on the Republi- can side of the fence. But aside from this we cannot do other than commend him. His management of the penitentiary affairs which appear to have been just and equit= able, have won him many friends, not previously reckoned as such, and his conduct, amounting to he- roism, at the attempted break has won him many others. With him in their power as a hostage, the rioters hoped to secure their free dom and with uplifted knife threat ened him with instant death in case he told the guards to fire. Although well knowing that the desperate men who had staked their all on the issue, would be as good as their word should he dare to give the command, he nevertheless gave it